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Graffiti back at park statue: The last time ChronicleWatch visited the William McKinley statue in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park, the statue had been painstakingly cleared of graffiti. That was seven months ago. Last week, new graffiti was spotted on the statue - graffiti that (just like last time) will cost the San Francisco Arts Commission thousands of dollars to eliminate. Just like last time, the word "love" was spray-painted on the area just below McKinley's face. Recent San Francisco graffiti attacks have hit the Miguel Hidalgo statue in Dolores Park and the Holocaust Memorial in Lincoln Park. The three incidents "mean that the $16,000 appropriated in the SFAC budget annually for conservation of the Civic Arts Collection is depleted," Luis Cancel, the commission's director of Cultural Affairs, told ChronicleWatch. Cancel said the commission "could use the public's financial help to restore these monuments." People can e-mail him directly at luis.cancel@sfgov.org, said Cancel, who can hardly wait for the latest "love" to disappear from the Panhandle's presidential statue.